Summary Of The Disciplined Mind By Lewis-Clark

Lewis-Clark State College (LCSC) takes great pride in the future teachers that the education programs creates from the students. The teacher education program offered at LCSC is designed to “prepare competent, caring teachers who have the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to be effective in helping all students” (“Lewis-Clark,” 2017). During their time at this college, students take a variety of courses that will help prepare them to teach in a classroom and educate future generations as well as connect with students, parents, and the other staff at the school. The college’s overall aim is “to prepare caring professionals who teach for understanding in communities of learning” (“Lewis-Clark,” 2017). Psychologist Howard Gardner explains

Gardner (1999) further goes on to state that "good" schools encourage "the cultivation and elaboration of multiple intelligences" (pg 91). The schools also need to be willing to change in aspects such as the overall vision, requirements, and the understanding of subjects. However, he does leave certain aspects of schooling open to preference according to what would work best for individuals, the community, and the culture. Gardner outlines what needs to be done in order to have prepared, caring professionals and communities of learning to achieve teaching for

Gardner (1999) outlines four approaches to understanding that can be used in a classroom: “learning from suggestive institutions” (pg 126), “direct confrontations of erroneous conceptions” (pg 127), “a framework that facilitates understanding” (pg 128), and “multiple entry points to understanding” (pg 133). Teaching from suggestive institutions is to contextualize education, or to teach the class in a certain setting to better communicate the teachings of that class. Different classes will have different classes; for example, a cooking class should be taught in a kitchen while a science class should be taught outside or in a lab. Direct confrontations of erroneous conceptions refers to the idea of correcting a student when they believe in something that is wrong. However, a teacher or parent wouldn’t correct the student by just telling them the correct answer, they should make the child discover the correct idea through experiments. Having a framework that facilitates understanding allows students to be “exposed from the start to examples of understanding, and should be given ample opportunities to practice and perform their own understandings” (Gardner, 1999, pg